Embroidering Words on Paper

I used Photoshop and a font that is quite bold to start with and then applied bold on top of that.

Then I realized that using Photoshop’s stroke path option with the brush spacing set quite far apart would give me the outlines with the markings for the pin holes. It worked out really well.

I did not use black as the color to stroke the path, but a medium gray, so that dots were not that obvious.

Then I had to flip the word horizontally so that I could print directly onto the paper (backside) and then prick the holes. Then when I turned the paper over the word displayed properly. I did not want to print onto the front.

First I have to say that this is quite a time consuming job to embroider text. In the future I would probably just embroider the first letter of a word rather than all of them.

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Second I wasn’t quite sure how I should embroider the letters. So I experimented with different ways as you can.

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Marlies is a 'renaissance woman', a 'jack' or should that be a 'jill' of all trades. Starting in school she learned various handicraft subjects and has since added by teaching herself more to her extensive repertoire often combining a number of them.